Aviation Week & Space Technology

U.S. draws allies closer in space ops; Israel uses Patriots to shoot down Syrian UAS; U.S. seeks $84.5 million for Huey program. and Japan’s hunt for intel-gathering aircraft.

Eventually, the ISS will need to leave low Earth orbit. One option may be to boost it into a 1,000-year storage orbit for future generations to salvage.

Startup Astrobotic aims to deliver payloads to the lunar surface once a year, starting with the first flight scheduled for 2020.

Electric motor startup MagniX locates global headquarters and a second engineering center in aviation’s biggest industrial cluster.

With a June 2020 compliance date nearing, European airlines seek accommodation to equipping fleets for ADS-B Out surveillance.

Aviation Week Network editors discuss highlights and lowlights at the Farnborough Airshow, including Britain’s future fighter vision: is it a storm in a teacup, or will it really happen?

White House says it wants an expert in building public-private partnerships to serve with Bridenstine at NASA.

Bombardier and ATR predict rising demand for smaller cargo aircraft in this region, as growing economies and geographical factors create opportunities.

The National Defense Industrial Association president/CEO says Israel’s first combat use of the F-35 is advantageous for the U.S.

Boeing NeXt brings together the aerospace giant’s research investments to develop new markets such as on-demand cargo drones, urban air taxis and even hypersonic airliners.

NASA and JAXA flight tests show significant cuts in approach noise through treatments to reduce airframe acoustic emissions.

JNAAM will be a Meteor with a Japanese gallium-nitride AESA. Prototypes should be ready in Japan’s fiscal 2023.

M&A in the A&D sector is surging and may be on its way to new levels across the board. Many advisors are wondering who is next?

Environmental group says new supersonic transports will have higher emissions, noise and fuel burn than subsonic airliners—requiring either new engines or new standards.

BlackFly Fixed-Wing eVTOL; Loon and Wing Graduate; Airbus, Singapore Team on Drones; XQ-58A nears flights; Raytheon’s 100-kW laser.

Could an upstart use A220s and Embraer E2s to overfly hubs?

Type certification of Rolls-Royce’s newest widebody powerplant, the Trent 7000, is “imminent” as the engine makes its first appearance at this year’s Farnborough Airshow beneath the wings of the Airbus A330-900neo.

Rolls-Royce also has run the new core for the future family at full power in its Advance3 demonstrator.

A full-scale mockup was on display at the Royal Air Tattoo to show off of the MQ-8 Fire Scout's capabilities.

Listen in as analyst Ron Epstein discusses findings from an extensive new airline survey on what airlines really want from Boeing's new midmarket airplane.

Some of this advanced—but unrealized—capability that Japan is seeking could come from the radar that will detect and track targets and guide interceptors to them.

The head of UTC Aerospace Systems talks about his new combined company with Rockwell Collins, pressures from Boeing and the all-digital future of aerospace.

The business case for Boeing’s NMA may be hard to close, especially for suppliers, as cost and return on investment issues remain.

HorizonX enables Boeing to explore the risks and rewards of disruption and avoid the fate of older companies brought down by technology advances.

It appears the front-running position to power Boeing’s new mid-market airplane is CFM’s to lose as the airframer starts evaluating proposals from engine OEMs.